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1741: John Wyatt, mechanic and inventor, designs and constructs a cart-weighing machine, later referred to as a Compound Lever Weighing machine, the design works by way of levers which hold in place a platform, no matter where the weight is placed the load is transferred to a central lever.
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* John Walker ( scholar ) ( 1692 ?– 1741 ), English classical scholar and Anglican archdeacon of Hereford
On 14 May 1741, Byron's ship, HMS Wager, was shipwrecked on the coast of Patagonia, and the survivors decided to split in two teams, one to make its way by boat to Rio de Janeiro, the other, John Byron's, to sail North and meet Spaniards.
* John Archer, United States representative and physician — recipient of the first medical diploma issued in the United States, from what is now the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine ; 1741 – 1810.
He was intended, by the King and Queen, for the office of Lord High Admiral, and, in 1740, he sailed, as a volunteer, in the fleet under the command of Sir John Norris, but he quickly became dissatisfied with the Navy, and, instead secured the post of colonel of the First Regiment of Foot Guards on 20 February 1741.
* John Barclay ( marine ) ( 1741 – 1823 ), British Royal Marines general
( London, 1734 – 1741 ), assisted in the composition of the Athenian Letters ( London, 1810 ), edited the State Papers of John Thurloe ( London, 1742 ) and the State Papers of W. Murdin ( London, 1759 ).
John Cleland was the oldest son of William Cleland ( 1673 / 4 – 1741 ) and Lucy Cleland ( née DuPass ).
In late 1740 or early 1741, the Gunning family returned to John Gunning's ancestral home in Ireland, where they divided their time between their home in Roscommon, and a rented house in Dublin.
In late 1740 or early 1741, the Gunning family returned to John Gunning's ancestral home in Ireland, where they divided their time between their home in Roscommon, and a rented house in Dublin.
Among his pupils were John Alexander Gresse ( 1741 – 1794 ); Charles Grignon ( 1754 – 1804 ); and Mauritius Lowe (- 1793 ).
* Lady Elizabeth Cavendish ( 1670 – 1741 ), married Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet and had issue
* John Connolly ( loyalist ) ( c. 1741 – 1813 ), doctor from Pennsylvania, agent of John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, active during the American Revolution
By 1739 John Hart had acquired his own farm near Hopewell, and in 1741 he married Deborah Scudder.
John Penn ( May 17, 1741 – September 14, 1788 ) was a signer of both the United States Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation as a representative of North Carolina.
* John Penn ( delegate ) ( 1741 – 1788 ), Continental Congressman from North Carolina and signer of the United States Declaration of Independence
* John FitzGerald, 15th Knight of Kerry ( 1706 – 1741 ), Irish MP for Dingle
* Tebbel, John William and Zuckerman, Mary Ellen ( 1991 ) The Magazine in America, 1741 – 1990 Oxford University Press, New York, ISBN 0-19-505127-0
* John Wodehouse, 1st Baron Wodehouse ( 1741 – 1834 ), British MP and then peer
* John Ker, 5th Earl of Roxburghe ( c. 1680 – 1741 ), 2nd son of the 3rd Earl, became Duke of Roxburghe in 1707
* John Ker, 1st Duke of Roxburghe ( c. 1680 – 1741 ), second son of the 3rd Earl
Philip Schuyler was born in Albany, New York, on November 20, 1733, to John ( Johannes ) Schuyler, Jr. ( 1697 – 1741 ), third generation of the Dutch family in America, and Cornelia Van Cortlandt ( 1698 – 1762 ).
* Lever, Jill, ( 2003 ) Catalogue of the Drawings of George Dance the Younger ( 1741 – 1825 ) and of George Dance the Elder ( 1695 – 1768 ) from the Collection of Sir John Soane's Museum, Azimuth Editions, ISBN 1-898592-25-X
* Lever, Jill, ( 2003 ) Catalogue of the Drawings of George Dance the Younger ( 1741 – 1825 ) and of George Dance the Elder ( 1695 – 1768 ) from the Collection of Sir John Soane's Museum, Azimuth Editions, ISBN 1-898592-25-X
John Theophilus Desaguliers has won the medal the most often, in 1734, 1736 and 1741.
1741 and Wyatt
In 1732 Lewis Paul and John Wyatt invented roller spinning – the " one novel idea of the first importance " in the development of the mechanised cotton industry – and in 1741 they opened the world's first cotton mill in Birmingham's Upper Priory.
1741 and inventor
* Henry Cort ( 1741 ?– 1800 ) was an English ironmaster and inventor.
In 1741, Jacques de Vaucanson, a French inventor who designed and built automated mechanical toys, was appointed inspector of silk factories.
* May 2-Jacob Christoph Le Blon, German inventor of four-colour printing ( died 1741 )
* John Allen ( physician ) ( c. 1660 – 1741 ), English physician and inventor
1741 and later
Nearly a century later, the English were to invade in earnest, taking Guantánamo Bay in 1741 during the War of Jenkins ' Ear with Spain.
On 8 December 1741 Vitus Bering died on the uninhabited island near the Kamchatka Peninsula, which was later given the name Bering Island in his honour.
Remnants of an early Renaissance building, originally built by the merchant Kreuznacher in 1539, featuring a tower with spiral stairs, and later owned by Duke Ernst August, who between 1741 and 1743 had the building dismantled and taken stone by stone to construct the Stadtschloss from it.
The stucco-works on the walls and ceiling were later commissioned by another Doge Pietro Grimani ( 1741 – 1752 ).
Houston's draft met staunch opposition, especially from Reverend Hezekiah Balch ( 1741 – 1810 ) ( who was later instrumental in the creation of Tusculum College ).
During the reign of Prince William Henry from 1741 to 1768, the coal mines were nationalized and his policies created a proto-industrialized economy, laying the foundation for Saarland's later highly industrialized economy.
Thirteen months later, a coup d ' état placed the Empress Elizabeth on the throne ( 6 December 1741 ), and Ivan and his family were imprisoned in the fortress of Dünamünde ( 13 December 1742 ) after a preliminary detention at Riga, whence the new Empress had at first decided to send them home to Brunswick.
Their son, Daniel Ernst Jablonski ( 1660 – 1741 ), Comenius's grandson, later went to Berlin in 1693 ; there he became the highest official pastor at the court of King Frederick I of Prussia ( reigned 1701 – 1713 ).
In 1692, it was annexed to Saxe-Eisenach and, in 1741, to the Duchy ( later Grand Duchy ) of Saxe-Weimar, to which it belonged until 1918.
On July 20, 1741 war was formally declared against Russia ; a month later the Diet was dissolved and the lantmarskalk set off to Finland to take command of the army.
' The Logic was followed in 1741 by a supplement, The Improvement of the Mind, which itself went through numerous editions and later inspired Michael Faraday.
* Samuel Kirkland ( 1741 – 1808 ), a Presbyterian missionary among the Oneida and Tuscarora people and founder ( in 1793 ) of the Hamilton-Oneida Academy ( later Hamilton College ), was born in the city.
In early 18th century England, singing of madrigals was revived by catch and glee clubs, and later by the formation of the Madrigal Society in 1741, which still meets today.
He made, however, a serious study of Arabic at Leiden ( 1741 ), and returned twenty years later to prosecute his studies.
The tower is mainly thirteenth century but the church itself has been enlarged and altered — most notably in 1741, when the nave was rebuilt, and later in Victorian times.
Middleton entered the Royal Navy in 1741 as captain's servant aboard and HMS Duke, and later served aboard HMS Flamborough as midshipman and master's mate.
Finally in 1741 she visited surviving siblings for the first time, and made two more visits later.
It was commanded by Colonel Andrew Van Swearingen ( 1741 – 1793 ) and later by his son-in-law, Captain Samuel Brady ( 1756 – 1795 ), the famous leader of Brady's Rangers.
The Vilna Gaons ' views were later formulated by his chief disciple Rabbi Chaim Volozhin ( 1741 – 1821 ) in his work Nefesh HaChaim.
Other engineering works included an aqueduct cut through a hill at Inveresk, and in 1741, an attempt to promote a Forth and Clyde canal, a project eventually realised by others some 30 years later.
1741 – 5 April 1824 ), who married James Lowther, later the 1st Earl of Lonsdale, on 7 September 1761
** Clavier-Übung ( without Part number ): Aria with Diverse Variations, later nicknamed Goldberg Variations ( 1741 )
The Bavarians occupied the fortress in 1741 but were forced out by the Austrians one year later.
Emlyn preached a good deal in Paul's Alley, Barbican, in his later years, and died in London in 1741.
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